April has been writing since she was ten years old, crediting the book Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh for lighting her creative spark. After finding she wasn’t cut out to be a newspaper reporter she turned her attention to becoming a schoolteacher and spent the biggest part of her life teaching high school English and science and raising a family. Becoming an empty nester rekindled the desire to write and she wrote and published her first book, I’m Dreaming of a Black Christmas: A Holiday Survival Guide. The romantic suspense novel Night Keeper followed. She later rewrote the novel as a Christian romantic suspense titled The Keeper, and followed it with Keeper II: The Storm. These two novels about zookeepers experiencing danger and romance at the zoo will soon conclude with the third in the trilogy, Keeper III: Blackout. April serves as conference chair for the East Texas Writers Guild and belongs to the Texas Retired Teachers Association and the Association for Texas Professional Educators. She enjoys tutoring, traveling, thrifting, her children and grandchildren, and her Boston terrier Stella.